Greetings! I have been lurking for a little while, learning all that I can to get the handful of machines I inherited up and working and usable.

When I started at my current place of work, there were still a small handful of Octanes running, even a deskside Origin 2000, along with a large handful in storage in one of our server rooms. Learning about them through work started to really peak my interest and I picked up an Octane that we were getting rid of several years ago. However, I never truly did anything with it, aside from taking it apart. Mostly due to time, and lack of proper monitor or 13w3 adapter. Fairly soon after, I find myself buying a house for the first time and getting married, so now I have a workshop in the basement to actually keep my collection of computers in, along with this one Octane.

Luck would have it, earlier this year we finally start clearing out a large portion of the SGI's still in storage at work and I lay claim to my current collection. Currently, all but one of the O2000's work. The faulty O2000 has two bad fans in the tray, that I THINK I managed to find replacements for. Have yet to try. Also, both the PSU's in the O2000s seem to fail sometimes when keying them on. Possibly they are on their last legs. Regardless, one of them is still working well enough for me to get Irix installed on it and stay up and running for an entire day.

I look forward to learning about these machines even more, and this site has been a fantastic resource.

Running these machines might help reform capacitors that are just slightly marginal, so the O2k PSUs could go either way. You'll find lots of discussions about PSUs, fans, cap replacement, etc etc here and in other venues.